My statement on the Filton 4 case, as an expert on the global arms trade: ‘These quadcopter drones are key instruments of genocide, used by the Israeli forces in Gaza for surveillance, targeting and to kill. Had they not been destroyed by these brave actionists, they could have easily ended up facilitating yet more killing and devastation. To call those who disabled them terrorists is a perverse distortion of the truth. The real outrage is the continued arming and enabling of a genocidal military campaign that has devastated an entire civilian population. Those who smashed these drones to pieces were not spreading terror - they were trying to prevent it.’

Mark Carney, "Together we - Canada, Ireland, and the EU - are one of the largest economic, cultural, technological, financial blocks in the world" "But to what purpose? Well, we are and can be a force for good because we safeguard the values of human rights, of dignity and pluralism that are people hold dear" "Just as Irish monks centuries ago preserved, copied and taught classical knowledge amid the Dark Ages. We must preserve and defend our values, our traditions, our interests. During this rupture" "Building true sovereignty cannot be achieved in isolation. It requires diversification. It requires partnership" "Coalitions that work issue by issue with partners that share enough common ground to act together" "And that's why Canada was the first non European country to join the EU's Safe Defence Procurement Program" "It's why we're championing efforts to build a bridge between the Trans Pacific Partnership and the European Union" "Something that would create a trading bloc of one and a half billion people, a rules based trading block of one and a half billion people" "With these shared values, we have developed a unique worldview, transatlantic worldview, if you will, rooted in a simple but profound conviction that we are stronger when we are connected, that our prosperity grows when it's shared, and that we are the stewards of our lands" "Canada, Ireland and Europe can be pivotal, powerful and purposeful, a force for good." "The EU maintains preferential access to over 80 partner countries, making it the top trading partner for 80 nations globally" "Together, we are powerful because we have the capacity to act together" "Combined, the population is more than twice that of the United States" "We have a larger cultural export industry and a more diverse one, I might add, a similarly sized GDP, comparable R&D spend"

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🚨 Michael Heseltine, “We must create a kind of United States of Europe. ⏰ This is an important historical reminder, Churchill’s vision after WW2 was that European nations had to find ways to bind themselves together so that nationalism, rivalry and the cycles of war that devastated the continent would not return. Heseltine is right, Brexit is a reversal of that post-war understanding: a retreat from collective European strength at a moment when the world is once again becoming more dangerous. “Project Fear has become Project Here.” The warnings about trade friction, reduced investment, barriers with our largest market and economic costs were dismissed as “scaremongering”, but those concerns are now reality pulling Britain into decline. On political accountability, Heseltine asks: where are the people who promised the benefits of Brexit now celebrating its success? If the promises had been fulfilled: lower migration, stronger growth, less bureaucracy, a more powerful Britain, one might expect the architects of the project to be loudly claiming victory. His final point: democracy is not a single frozen moment in 2016. The generations who will live longest with the consequences have the same democratic right to assess the outcome and decide their future direction. Whatever one’s view of Brexit, how can a medium-sized European country maintain prosperity, influence and security in a world increasingly shaped by continental-sized powers and geopolitical competition.

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Jeremy Johnson - in 50 years time this will be the only 1.39 minutes of your life you'll be remembered for. It'll be played in genocide museums to sum up the complicity and callous brutality of the British state in the face of the slaughter of the Palestinian people - and the courage of those who opposed it.

👏👏👏lord hain is right Starmer is wrong

Only Labour can be led by a former Human Right's Lawyer, Keir Starmer, and be ok with people not convicted of terrorism offences, being sentenced as though their actions were terrorism-related Criminal damage and attacking the police are serious wrongs that deserve firm punishment. But deliberately conflating them with terrorism sets a dangerous precedent When the state blurs the line between thuggish disorder and terrorism, it undermines public trust, invites accusations of two-tier justice, and weakens the very safeguards the former human rights barrister once championed This is the legacy of Keir Starmer, who leads the party, of Yvette Cooper, whose proscription of a protest group was ruled unlawful by the High Court, and Shabana Mahmood, who continues this divisive narrative I'm very much aligned to the views expressed by Baron Hain in the House of Lords, rightly calling out criminal behaviour while criticising this conflation. His words are true now, as they were back then. And like him, I too am deeply ashamed, "Treating young people as terrorists because they feel frustrated about the failure to stop mass killings and bombings of civilians in Gaza" "I've never supported their activity, but there's a great difference between what they did and terrorism" "And if you start labelling people willy nilly terrorists right across the board, you're going down a very dangerous route" "Al Qaeda's attack on New Yorks twin towers killing 2,753 people - real terrorism" "ISIS - real terrorism" "This Labour government is treating Palestine Action as equivalent to ISIS or Al Qaeda, which is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled, and morally wrong" "Frankly I'm deeply ashamed"

So, it turns out that the violent protestors, who Farage & Reform would have us believe were regular members of the public showing justifiable rage, had numerous previous criminal convictions bbc.com/news/articles/c70y84…

Still time to plan a trip to London next week for the #NationalRejoinMarch Showing up matters - send the politicians a message: #RejoinEU now Stand up and be counted. Young people deserve the same opportunities that we had. @

After a week of horror in #Belfast at the stabbing attack turned to violent riots, Northern Ireland’s other voice is being raised. Anti-racism protest underway in the city centre

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Want to end the madness? Be there on Sat 20th June, London #RejoinEU #RejoinMarch

Bent Justice: Filton Four anti-genocide activists found guilty of criminal damage but sentenced for terrorism after vital information was deliberately withheld from the the jury. The Sentencing Act 2020 that allows this is repugnant and needs to be declared null and void.

If this man is in your family you should be truly ashamed of him. A disgrace to the history of our country and to humanity.

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This is barbaric. They were not permitted to explain to the jury why they carried out the attack on the Elbit factory - which makes the weapons that kill Palestinian children. And the jury was never told they would be sentenced as terrorists. /1

All those in Britain who engaged in direct action to liberate South Africa from apartheid would be sentenced as terrorists by this deceitful system of injustice!

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